[DGD] Re: FTP

[Wim van der Vegt]

Hi,

I ran a time with a batch file that retried to start every minute if it
failed. That way you can ftp the driver in bertween.

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Wim van der Vegt

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory D Lewis <glewis at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
To: dgd at list.imaginary.com <dgd at list.imaginary.com>
Date: vrijdag 11 september 1998 3:55
Subject: [DGD] Re: FTP


>Wim van der Wegt wrote:
>
>> Don't forget the biggest disadvantage of a build-in ftp server, if the
mud
>> won't restart (for example because you made a type in a new driver
object),
>> the ftp server isn't of much use as it won;t start either.
>
>Hmm, I'm still somewhat unconvinced this is a _big_ disadvantage.  If your
>driver object won't load then how is having an ftp daemon running going to
help
>unless you have some way of restarting the driver remotely.  Certainly you
>can ftp up what you believe to be repaired code, but unless you can get the
>driver process to restart thats not much help.  If you've written a script
to
>keep restarting the driver/make sure the driver is up, then surely you can
add
>a few thingies to it to restart using a different config file that points
to
>some sort of fail safe mudlib that will allow admins in to fix up the mess.
>
>> For the ftp protocol, it's not that hard, i wrote one once in lpc that
even
>> adjusted the filesystem show to the user to the parts of the mud he/she
was
>> supposed to see (ie it left out the directories posing a security risk if
>> anyone would have edit access to). I know a couple of other lpc
programmers
>> have their versions too.
>
>*nod* Its certainly not too hard to write.  My point was merely that why
does
>everyone need to write their own?  Something that at least covered the
>implementation of the protocol would at go some way to alleviating the
>problem (from my point of view) of people writing code to do the same thing
>as somebody else time and time again.
>
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